I WRITE regarding the article titled £100m investment into new schools, Oxford Mail, week commencing September 24.

As one of the many families in Abingdon that is now forced by the LEA to drive between 60 to 100 miles plus every week to take our child to a primary school, I read the above article with a hope that action was being taken to alleviate the pressure for primary school places in the north of Abingdon.

The article specifies the north of Abingdon as one of the “pinchpoints” that needs to be addressed and then lists the sites under consideration, none of which are in the town!

The situation in Abingdon has been exacerbated by the LEA policy of removing school places there in previous years and refusing to proceed with any expansion scheme in the area (despite parental representation over several years and having already identified where expansion could take place).

Greater evidence of the LEA’s failure to comply with its statutory obligations is hard to envisage.

In any other organisation this level of incompetence and complete disdain for their employer (us, the public) would result in those responsible losing their jobs.

My son is now settled and very happy at the school he attends. But to the residents of the road in which my son’s school is located, I offer my apologies that my car will be adding to the problem, for the purpose of school drop-off and pick-up, for at least the next six years – along with those belonging to other families in the same situation.

J BUSSON

Radley Road

Abingdon